Published in General on Friday, September 24th, 2004
the picture of internet - a link following bot extracts images from the pages it visits and appends them to a collage. Check it out...
Update: Well, as discussed in the comments, that 'went south' rather quickly, so I removed the link...
Am I late to this party? It hit fiftyfoureleven, but if it can't pick out images in CSS we've likely contributed nothing. Perhaps it's time to start using images...
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Comments and Feedback
Wow, that's a pretty cool idea. Good catch Mike, I've certainly never seen it before.
Wow, and you're up on these things! Ha, a new find by diggin' thru my logs... Turned out to be good for something!
There's a lot less porn there than I'd expect!
Yeah, but I imagine that all it would take is one bad link to start the ball-a-rollin...
I wonder what happened? I just took another look and now it is all porn!
I think I better stop linking to it lol Imagine potential clients clicking around my website and coming across this! Eek.
Yikes! You're right! Must hit that one bad link. Perhaps I should post a warning...
Interesting to note, I see 6 Google and 1 Yahoo!, and not a single other search engine. For the moment there is only one website logo I can see there that is neither a porn site nor Google/Yahoo! Oh, and porn took it over rather rapidly.
Yeah, but it's pr0n you can access at work! A-heh-heh-heh...</beavis>